Oladimeji, who was
paraded along with three other suspects, Oladimeji Ezekiel (22), Afeez Abolaji
(28) and Suleiman Jelili (28), said his friends got carried away by the ‘posh’
apartment he was living in when they visited him in his brother-in law’s house
and later talked him into agreeing to rob the house.
They were arrested on
October 2 on Eruku-Egbe Road in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State.
The state Commissioner
of Police, Lawan Ado, who briefed journalists on the arrest, said a detachment
of policemen from Eruku Division had stopped the car with registration number
Lagos AKD 959 EF, with four young men inside.
He said: “When
searched, a phone number on the vehicle particulars they brandished was called
and the owner of the vehicle who picked the call stated that the vehicle was
snatched from him in Ibadan Oyo State.”
Oladimeji, who said he
had applied to the University of Ilorin to read Accountancy in the current
admission exercise, said the mission of his gang was not to steal the car but
rob his brother-in law’s household of cash.
He said: “It was when
we finished and it was getting dark that we decided to take the car so that we
could get out of the area on time.”
The suspect said his
gang had to sell a phone found inside the car to raise money to repair the car
when its window shield got broken along the way.
In another development,
two other suspected car snatchers were arrested by the police early last month,
according to Ado.
The men, Kabiru
Abolarin (31) and Olaleye Kolade (32), were said to have robbed Mrs. Omokanye
Modupe of Danialu Alapata, Gaa Akanbi area of Ilorin of her black Toyota Corolla
with registration number LEM 121 TK.
The police boss said
the suspects had confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court.
Meanwhile, the police
have dismissed a widespread rumour in Ilorin, about the involvement of some
policemen in ritual activities.
Ado said the rumour,
which started over the weekend, had continued to spread despite initial efforts
by the command to curtail it.
He said: “We feel it is
worrisome because people have been calling us from across the world over the
issue.”
The commissioner added
that the command was also investigating its personnel at the Adewole Division
where the supposed ritual transaction was alleged to have taken place.
The rumour was that
policemen in Adewole Division, an elite are of the metropolis, usually arrest
people for late hour movement as from 8p.m. and then take them to ritual
killers for as much as N80,000 per head.
The rumour claimed that
some of the culprits had been arrested after a face-off with military men whose
personnel had been mistakenly arrested by the ritual merchants.
But Ado said there was
no arrest of any military personnel, and neither was there any brawl between
the police and military men as alleged.
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